Just 20 states earned a “meets requirements” designation from the Education Department this year for serving students with disabilities ages 3 to 21 under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The post Most...
Date & Time: Thursday, August 06, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET In this webinar, learn the key takeaways from a report suggesting that transportation teams are sitting on information that could directly connect to whether...
This may sound strange coming from the co-founder of an education technology company, but I think paper is a powerful technology in a classroom. Research on the science of learning consistently says so. So do the piles...
Public schools are beginning to imagine ways they can benefit from the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, after the Treasury Department clarified last month that district students will be eligible for scholarships. But...
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero expressed several concerns in a June email, including that the school board is getting too involved in administrative matters.
Aaron "Jitu" Brown, a Chicago school board member representing the West Side, poses for a portrait in Douglass Park on Sept. 10, 2024. Brown will lead the board's Black Student Achievement Committee.
New York City schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels asked schools to pause software purchases while the city finalizes artificial intelligence guidance.
The Chicago Board of Education voted on a resolution that would bar school board candidates from accepting campaign donations from vendors who do business with Chicago Public Schools. Pictured: The Chicago Board of...
Special education teacher Stephen Torres Esquer works with students in his classroom at Lowell High School in San Francisco in 2019. A new report raises concerns that under the Trump administration, the federal...
“Yale has the resources, stature, and responsibility to stand firm,” the American Association of University Professors and other groups said.
Religious schools accepting public funds are required to follow Maine laws that protect against discrimination based on faith, gender identity and sexual orientation, a federal court has ruled. Crosspoint Church, which...
Local technology companies may have solved some of their biggest problems after hearing from North Carolina high school students during the annual Teamship Showcase in Durham on June 25. Teamship is an internship...
The national faculty group, alongside a local affiliate, asked a judge to block the directives and rule them unconstitutional.
I have been a high school teacher for almost three decades, spending almost all that time teaching seniors about American civics. My teaching tenure has overlapped with the rise of the very trends now engulfing our...
Just a day after she visited a Newark school, Weingarten called for classroom screen time limits and a ban on student-facing AI in elementary schools.
Most families want the same thing: children who feel safe, welcome, challenged and supported at school, and teachers who have the tools to help them succeed. Education must be focused on what truly matters: our...
A $6,000 Apple MacBook Pro. A $4,800 Trek mountain bike. A $2,000 Crate & Barrel bookshelf. Families bought all of this—and more—with taxpayer dollars through Utah’s school voucher program during the 2024-25 school...
Educators are having Chromebook and digital-device remorse right now, with schools across the U.S. banning cellphones and parents fighting what many view as excessive classroom screen time. But educator and author...
Student OMNY cards from the 2025-26 school year.
Students work on a house model during their Building Industry Technology Academy class at Valencia High School in Placentia, California, in 2019.
A second grader in Norway drew a YouTube logo when my colleagues and I asked what they wanted to be when they grow up. When we asked why, the child explained that YouTubers are famous and make lots of money. When we...
The teenagers at the entrepreneurship class at a new Detroit Boys and Girls Club had ideas for a business or product they could create.  Now they had to refine them and think about how to pitch them to investors or...
A family shopping for college today knows more about the cost of a mortgage than the real price of a college degree. That confusion isn’t only a technical problem inside financial aid offices. It’s a public trust...
The college transformed in the 1970s into an ecologically minded liberal arts institution. Now former faculty want to sustain that ethos in a smaller version.
Fourth grade literacy gains earned Mississippi national acclaim. But that achievement tapers off as students advance to higher grades.  Lawmakers are putting millions toward changing that.  Mississippi has...
A heavy, authoritative thud echoed through the Hawai‘i House chamber as Speaker Rilynn Kawaikoʻolilihilihiokalikolehua Perez brought down the gavel. Student delegates settled into their seats, shuffling papers and...
Before Michaella Huck graduated from high school in 2018, she struggled with depression and anxiety and didn’t know where to get help. She’d hear stories of students who died on “suicide hill” in her Los Angeles...
Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai Japanese. Even better, their reply in their native tongue comes through perfectly clear...
Earlier this year, U.S. senators convened to grill experts on how social media, smartphones and other technologies are affecting children’s mental health and learning. That conversation has since helped fuel a new wave...